Overview

• Persistent rain cut the match to a planned nine overs per side before only 2.1 overs were completed, prompting abandonment at Mount Maunganui.
• New Zealand won the toss and put Australia in to bat, but the stop‑start evening ended without a result.
• Australia remain 1–0 up after the first T20I, where captain Mitchell Marsh struck 85 off 43 in a successful 182 chase.
• New Zealand’s Tim Robinson had scored an unbeaten 106 in the opener, but his century could not prevent defeat.
• Team changes for the curtailed second game included Sean Abbott replacing Ben Dwarshuis for Australia, with New Zealand adding Jimmy Neesham, Ish Sodhi and Ben Sears; the third T20I is scheduled for October 4 at Bay Oval.